Be the boss everyone wants to work for : a guide for new leaders

Flip Your Script! You've been promoted to leadership—congratulations! But it's nothing like your old job, is it? William Gentry says it's time to flip your script. We all have mental scripts that tell us how the world works. Your old script was all about “me”: standing out as an individual. But as a new leader, you need to flip your script from “me” to “we” and help the group you lead succeed. In this book, Gentry supports and coaches you to flip your script in six key areas. He offers actionable, practical, evidence-based advice and examples drawn from his research, his work with leaders, and his own failures and triumphs of becoming a new leader. Get started flipping your script and become the kind of boss everyone wants to work for. Becoming a leader for the first time is one of the biggest and most stressful psychological and emotional shifts you will ever experience. You're suddenly given an important job that has almost nothing in common with what you've been trained to do. It's as though, at the age of sixteen, your parents said You ride a bike so well you might as well take the car and handed you the keys. Cool, but what now? William Gentry feels your pain. He was happy as a senior research scientist at the Center for Creative Leadershipand then he was promoted to his first leadership role. So this book doesn't just draw on his years of studying and training new leadersit's personal. And his singular insight? New leaders must flip their scripts. We all have scripts that tell us how things are supposed to be. As a worker, your script is all about me: your individual contribution. But when you become a boss, you must focus on your group: flip that script from me to we. This means flipping pretty much everything elseyour mindset, your skillset, your work relationships, your do it all attitude, your view of the organization, and more. Gentry walks you through each of six flips, offering practical, research-based advice and examples drawn from his work at CCL. But this book is more than a series of best practicesit's your guide to internalizing a leader's perspective. Gentry helps you flip your script so you'll know what to do to help yourself and the team you lead succeed. That's the kind of boss everyone wants to work forand the kind of boss who accomplishes the most. MANAGEMENT: LEADERSHIP & MOTIVATION. You've been promoted to leadership- congratulations! But it's nothing like your old job, is it? William Gentry says it's time to flip your script. We all have mental scripts that tell us how the world works. Your old script was all about "me": standing out as an individual. But as a new leader, you need to flip your script from "me" to "we" and help the group you lead succeed. In this book, Gentry supports and coaches you to flip your script in six key areas. He offers actionable, practical, evidence-based advice and examples drawn from his research, his work with leaders, and his own failures and triumphs of becoming a new leader. Get started flipping your script and become the kind of boss everyone wants to work for Offering practical, research-based advice and examples, this book is your guide to internalizing a leader's perspective and will explain how you can “flip your script” so you'll know what to do to help yourself and the team you lead to success. -- Résumé abrégé tiré du livre